1996 National Book Award Winner for Fiction.
The elegant short fictions gathered hereabout the love of science and the science of love are often set against the backdrop of the nineteenth century. Interweaving historical and fictional...
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The summer of 1917.
Britain is losing the war against the deadly German U-boats.
After a close fought action, Commander David Smith uncovers what he believes is a deadly plot against Britain from a dying German sailor. Code-named...
Современная русская и зарубежная проза, Современные любовные романы
Ship's Life, или «Океаны нам по щиколотку!»
Вы когда-нибудь были на круизном лайнере? А хотели бы? А если вам всего 25 и вы вдруг оказываетесь на огромном белом корабле, ходящем по...
Современная русская и зарубежная проза, Современные любовные романы
Ship's Life, или «Океаны нам по щиколотку!»
Вы когда-нибудь были на круизном лайнере? А хотели бы? А если вам всего 25 и вы вдруг оказываетесь на огромном белом корабле, ходящем по...
Shukshin may be an ordinary truck driver, but his delivery route demands all the poise and determination of a ship’s captain in the vice-grip of a storm. He travels a highway buried in the depths of the Siberian taiga to bring vital supplies to...
Shira is Nobel laureate S.Y. Agnon’s final, epic novel. Unfinished at the time of his death in 1970, the Hebrew original was published a year later. With this newly revised English translation by Zeva Shapiro, including archival material never...
Following the tremendous popular success of Jane Eyre, which earned her lifelong notoriety as a moral revolutionary, Charlotte Bront? vowed to write a sweeping social chronicle that focused on "something real and unromantic as Monday morning."...
Кому ты нужна в волшебном королевстве, если ты — не маг? Оказалось — всем!
И лесным духам. И обаяшке-принцу. И эксцентричному сыщику...
There are two things people like to do with a new phenomenon; understand it and use it. Sometimes it’s not wise to be too particular about the...
Steve Martin's first foray into fiction is as assured as it is surprising. Set in Los Angeles, its fascination with the surreal body fascism of the upper classes feels like the comedian's familiar territory, but the shopgirl of the book's title...